Photo courtesy of Crown Equipment. President of the Australian Industrial Truck Association (AITA) Steve Stewart has announced the forklift industry body will sponsor its third annual National Forklift Safety Week from 3 to 7 June 2013. ...
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Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), a leading manufacturer of forklifts under the Cat lift trucks, Mitsubishi forklift trucks and Jungheinrich brands, today announced Ken Barina as its new president. Barina succeeds Hiroshi ...
A new safety standard has been published for the use of lanyard and harness restraint systems on forklifts. On February 23, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard ANSI/ITSDF B56.1, clause 4.17 was revised. It now requires all ...
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A new container design is set to change the economics of shipping palletised cargo, allowing cargo owners and consolidators to increase significantly the volume of cargo shipped at any one time. UK-based container design company Container ...
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More than 2 million people and 30,000 animals are expected at Reliant Park for the 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in February and March. Behind the scenes, Cat Lift Trucks will provide the equipment and expertise, including more than ...
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Yale Materials Handling Corporation introduced a factory-backed Certified Remanufactured Program at last week’s ProMat 2013 show. Select Yale dealers will be authorized to offer certified remanufactured Yale lift trucks that will be ...
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Hyster Company unveiled a new factory-backed certification program for remanufactured Hyster lift trucks at ProMat 2013. Select Hyster dealers will be authorized to offer Hyster Certified Remanufactured lift trucks, which will come with a ...
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Automated high density pallet handling storage solutions reduce the investment in land and space, reduce labor requirements associated with conventional handling and reduce damage from lift trucks. That was the message from Scott Hinke, ...
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Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), a leading provider of forklift trucks in the United States, Canada and Mexico, today announced the launch of the Jungheinrich “Parts Fast or Parts Free Guarantee,” which ...
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IDG News Service - The International CES is packed to the rafters with the latest in shiny, often expensive high-tech gadgets, so it's no surprise that theft is a problem for companies exhibiting at the show. Several vendors who rent ...
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It’s a New Year’s tradition for anyone who writes for a living: use the first column of the year to look back at what just happened and try to make sense of what’s to come. Truth be told, it was probably a way for writers ...
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Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. (TMHU), the supplier of the number one selling lift truck in North America, celebrated the end of its 2012 philanthropic giving year with the donation of two internal combustion lift trucks to the Columbus, ...
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Last week, the 8th Annual RoboBusiness Leadership Summit posted record attendance over three warms days in Pittsburgh, Pa. Home to Carnegie Mellon University and its famed Robotics Institute, the city is a strong contender for robotics ...
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SAN ANTONIO—I'm in San Antonio this week, home to the Alamo and the annual meeting of the Material Handling Industry of America. At today's meeting, Hal Vandiver, MHIA's long-time economist and president of F. Hal Vandiver & ...
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This year The Raymond Corporation is celebrating its 90th anniversary as a leader in the materials handling industry.From the company's invention of the first hydraulic hand pallet truck in 1934 to its current advancements in lift truck ...
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